humi

See also: Húmi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *homei, locative of humus (“ground, soil”). Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí, “on the ground”) is the same formation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.miː/, [ˈhʊmiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mi/, [ˈuːmi]

Adverb

humī (not comparable)

1. on the ground.
2. to the ground.

Noun

humī

1. genitive singular of humus
2. locative singular of humus
3. nominative plural of humus
4. vocative plural of humus

Related terms

• humilis
• humilitās
• humiliter
• humō
• humus

References

• “humi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “humi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• humi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fall on the ground: humi procumbere
    
  • to throw any one to the ground: humi prosternere aliquem
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kumi (“beard, chin”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kumi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣumi/

Noun

humi

1. lips

Further reading

• Lynch, John (2002 December) “The Proto-Oceanic Labiovelars: Some New Observations”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 41, number 2, pages 310-362
• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)